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Welcome, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel!

Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel

Sigmar Gabriel has been Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
since 27 January 2017.

Born in Goslar on 12 September 1959, 3 daughters, German school teacher

Attended intermediate secondary school and grammar school in Goslar, passing university entrance examination;
2 years of military service;

Completed teacher training as a grammar school teacher for German, politics, and sociology at the University of Göttingen; 1st state examination in 1987, 2nd state examination for grammar school teachers in 1988

Political career

Since 27 January 2017
Federal Foreign Minister

December 2013 - January 2017
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

14 November 2013
Re-elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany

5 December 2011
Re-elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany

13 November 2009
Elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany

November 2005 - October 2009
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Since October 2005
Directly elected Member of the German Bundestag for constituency 49 (Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel)

2003 - 2005
Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Lower Saxony

December 1999 - March 2003
Minister-President of Lower Saxony

1999 - 2005
Member of the executive committee of the SPD

1998 - 1999
Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Lower Saxony

1997 - 1998
Deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Lower Saxony

1994 - 1997
Spokesman for domestic affairs in the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Lower Saxony

1991 - 1999
Borough councillor for the city of Goslar; chairman of the environment committee

1990 - 1994
Member of the environment committee in the state parliament of the Lower Saxony

1990 - 2005
Directly elected Member of the state parliament of Lower Saxony